Posts Tagged ‘fishing’

New England Charter Boat Association Inc

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

On June 30th, NE Charter Boat Association in conjunction with Bob Baptista (co-ordinator for underpriviledged children), Sean Canty (Special Olympic kids), John Hoffman (Boston’s Fishing Academny) and Pat Gately (Boston Harbor Shipyard) held their third summer kickoff with these inner city children. Twenty-two vessels donated their time, boats, crew, equipment, bait, etc for over 100 children between the ages of 8 – 14 spend the morning out fishing when they normally wouldn’t get a chance to. William McBrine from DCR was available to talk about training for boating, canoeing, etc. Lots of bass and flounder were caught that day. The event ended with a bar-be-que at Boston Harbor Shipyard’s marina and prizes.

NE Charter Boat Association meets the third Tuesday every month at Orient Heights Yacht Club at 7:30pm.  They are currently expanding their membership and looking for boat Captains, divers, surveyors, etc and/or associate members. For more information check out:  http://www.necharterboats.com/about_us/mission_history.htm

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Landing and marina off to a good start!

Monday, July 20th, 2009

May 1st – Winthrop’s landing and marina officially opened for the season. New signs have been posted and DCR/Environmental Police is watching.

June 10th – UN Oceans World Day was celebrated in Winthrop as well as around the world. At the landing, the harbormaster’s office and DPW work crew got together to clean up the harbor and brought in broken down floats, etc.
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June – aside from the nasty rains, fishing has been great, slips were being rented out, the ramps were worked on, summer rentals for July were coming in and accepted, pumpout boat was busy, parking lot has been full and 3 young adults from Parks and Recreation were hired to pick up trash and other odd jobs.

DCR/Environmental Police have been showing up off and on, checking out the boats as they go out and especially when they return. If you’re out fishing, they want to see what you caught. If you’re just out for the day, make sure you have an appropriate amount of lifejackets for everybody on board, etc. For a refresher in boat safety, go to:  www.thenauticallifestyle.com/TransientTalk there’s six weeks worth of boat safety class notes there.

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Harbor Management Committee starts up again?

Monday, September 29th, 2008

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22, Harbor Management Committee met with Tom Reilly in anticipation of re-establishing the group. The committee’s main focus was to walk away with a working relationship with the town through a liaison (which doesn’t exist) to oversee all waterfront issues.  This committee’s purpose is to discuss the pros and cons of waterfront projects then, make recommendations back to this liaison person – who then reports back to the city councilors and town manager.  After two hours of discussion, the group walked away shaking their heads and Tom Reilly said he would try to find someone for them. According to some of the members I spoke with, unless there’s a liaison, there’s no sense in dealing with these issues. 

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Snipe Contest and more

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

September 12-14, Cottage Park Yacht Club had their Snipe contest. This was three days of serious sailing, yet everyone appeared to be having a great time. Two participants in the regatta were: Augie Diaz, a two-time world champion and Tomas Hornos; a member of Cottage Park Yacht Club, student at Tufts University and member of their sailing team,  and the current world champion.  Next year the Snipe World Championship takes place in San Diego.

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